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A recipe found in 10th-century manuscript by the Director of the Parker Library, Professor Philippa Hoskin, is on display in a new exhibition at the British Museum. We decided to try it out. shorturl.at/JNx1m

We are delighted to see one of our 9thC manuscripts displayed in the remarkable 'Silk Roads' exhibition at British Museum The display features an added incense recipe from 10thC England. A collective College effort recreated it in our Chapel! corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library…

New dates released for Parker Library tours Oct-Dec 2024! Once a week, usually at 2pm, anyone can get a chance to visit our fake-medieval (a.k.a. neo-gothic) old library and check out the exhibition of some real medieval manuscripts Book your tour: eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-libra…

November is the time to beat the oak trees to fell acorns for your hog. Also, centaurs with six-packs. The Parker Library MS 053: The Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary

Scota, the mythical daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh, sailing on the page of 'Scotichronicon' in the Parker Library (now CCCC MS 171b, f. 14v : tinyurl.com/bdeh323n) This, and other treasures on display during our autumn '24 tours: eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-libra…

Our greatest benefactor, elizabethan archbishop Matthew Parker (d. 1575) had a portrait made - the first ever portrait engraved in England Dr Spillane explores its the rich symbolism: corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/matth… The manuscript is fully digitised: parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog…

Staffing a historic library happens in a variety of ways - here's one journey to us with our current Sub-Librarian and Special Collections Librarian Tuija Ainonen

Time for holidays .... almost! Our annual winter closure starts on Fri 20 December 2024 at 15:00. We will re-open for readers Monday 6 January 2025 at 9:45. Image: CCCC MS 158, f. 3r Fully digitised at bit.ly/3ZBa1Ja #MedievalMSS

Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web! We’re celebrating our on-going digital collaboration with Stanford University Libraries by gifting our users a new digitised MS that we acquired in late 2022: 16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog…

Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web! How do you celebrate a full-scale digital MS library online? By publishing our latest MS acquisition! Our Director, Dr Hoskin, describes the gift: corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/parke… Stay tuned for interviews marking the anniversary!

Remember the early years?🤔 We didn't want to lose sight of them & asked our colleague Suzanne Paul (now Keeper of MSS Cambridge University Library) how it was to work on a large-scale digitisation project back in the day Give her a listen! corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/early… #ParkerLibrary #MedievalMSS

Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts Just listen to Stewart J. Brookes give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/openi… #PLOW #ParkerLibrary

From Cambridge experience to the whole world to enjoy! Medieval manuscript digitisation transformed student and teacher access to medieval manuscripts We are proud to continue our 15-year collaboration with Stanford University Libraries corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/teach… #PLOW #ParkerLibrary